Natural Pigments LLC is a privately-held company based in California with an affiliate company in the Russia Federation and a distribution facility in Europe. We process, import and distribute rare and hard-to-find art materials for fine artists. We specialize in supplying art materials that were used in historical painting since pre-historic times up to and including the eighteenth century.

We constantly search for materials and products of the finest quality so that we can bring them direct to you from the source. To do so, we literally travel the world to find the art materials made for professional artists. We obtain minerals from mines in Afghanistan, Chile, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, to name a few places, for processing into natural mineral pigments. We purchase resins, gums and plants from India, Kenya and Malaysia for varnishes and painting mediums.

Our mission is to stock the largest supply of natural pigments, paints and other professional art supplies in the United States, enabling us to bring you a selection that makes shopping for rare and hard-to-find art materials easy. Our objective is to promote the understanding and use of these materials among artists by providing detailed information for their use in casein (milk), encaustic, fresco, oil, manuscript illumination, tempera and watercolor painting.